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Progress or Regress? The Future of the Left under Obama

by: Platypus Affiliated Society

Publication date: 2008-12-06

Usage: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States

Topics: Left, Platypus, Cutrone, Duncombe, Korte, Post, Street, NYU, regress, progress, future, politics, Marx, labor, race, civil rights, history, election, party, revolution

Saturday, December 6th 2008

New York University
Silver Center
100 Washington Square East room 405

Panelists:
Chris Cutrone (Platypus)
Stephen Duncombe (author of Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy)
Pat Korte (New School SDS)
Charles Post (Solidarity)
Paul Street (author of Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics, 2008)

The Platypus Affiliated Society in New York presents a moderated panel discussion and audience Q&A to critically evaluate the widespread assumption that the election of Barack Obama presents an opportunity for today's Leftists. Asking how opportunity can be distinguished from opportunism, Platypus has invited several intellectuals and activists to publicly think through the foreseeable pitfalls and potentials posed by the passing of the Bush-era into the age of Obama.